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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman departed from the text of his sermon to denounce the statement as an i"insult to 25,000,000 fellow-Americans" He called the signers "selfstyled superpatriots [who] do disservice to their country and violate the Golden Rule...
...Print"; Van Anda got the news, saw that it was fit, and printed it. He treated the Versailles Treaty with the competitive zest of a tabloid editor covering a beautiful blonde's murder trial, used 24 telegraph and telephone lines to transmit the full text from Washington, and gave it 62 columns of type. No other U.S. newspaper ran it in full...
...Cantachiaro dug its spurs into a Benito Mussolini speech, delivered in Milan. Headlines and acetous comments derided the ex-Duce as "delirious ... a Nero who fiddled all Italy into ashes," and his followers as "scum in an advanced state of decay." Explained Editor Monicelli: "We offer the complete text [of Mussolini's speech] to our readers with the wish that . . . the last remains of this tragic buffoonery . . . should be swept away...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...
Within the church Arne Fjellbu preached his last sermon to the few who had come in before the police arrived. His text: the words of Peter to Jesus, "We have forsaken all, and followed thee." For the churchmen of Norway, the words were prophetic...